Thanks for forwarding the pointer. You may also be interested in http://rmf.vc/IPPvD -- Purpose vs. Discovery – which is another departure from conventional thinking about network capacity and purpose. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel Bauwens Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 22:44 To: p2p-foundation Cc: Sepp Hasslberger Subject: Fwd: Future Internet is not a net Dear Sepp, the ideas of Bob Frankston, on 'abolishing pipes', make a lot of sense, I wonder if you could present them to our readers? Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Frankston <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM Subject: Future Internet is not a net To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> It was good talking to you at ContactCon. I happened across your old post asking for comments on future of the Internet. I go into these issues in my various writings but it may be too radical for your audience since I don’t accept the idea of a network as anything more than an emergent property. Instead I start with relationships and factor out exchanging bits as a plumbing issue. You might be interested in http://rmf.vc/ThinkingOutsideThePipe as well as the longer essays I point to. In http://rmf.vc/AmbientConnectivity I provide a framing focused on enabling applications rather than the networking itself. The limitations of the Internet are solved not by engineering a solution to each one but by a dynamic process. I first started writing about that in 1997 when I wrote a chapter about the limits of Moore’s law – http://rmf.vc/BeyondLimits. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens